Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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CORNWELL, David (?John Le Carr??) (1931?2020). The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963. 8vo. Original pale blue cloth (renewed endpapers, some spotting to text block, also some light marginal browning to pp. 6?13); original unclipped dust jacket (small discrete paper repair to spine verso near head, some discrete restoration to extreme corners, else fine). Provenance: David and Patricia Cory (bookplate and booklabel), both English authors and bibliophiles whose collection sold en bloc in 2018 at Keys Auction. FIRST EDITION of the author?s third book and the first novel to win both the Gold Dagger Award and the Edgar Award.